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Germany: BAT’s sick notes
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BAT Germany recently released its social report for 2003. Where tobacco is concerned, Germany is the sick man of western Europe. Rampant tobacco promotion saturates youth oriented media, especially student publications, and the government is infamous among its European Union partners for taking a fiercely pro-tobacco line at intergovernmental negotiations (see
). So it takes more than average industry duplicity for a German tobacco company to portray itself as socially responsible.
But even German health advocates, accustomed to industry excesses not seen …